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Source: business Insider
A Democratic senator is asking the FBI to investigate Kirstjen Nielsen, accusing her of committing perjury in sworn testimony about the family separations
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A Democratic senator has asked the FBI to investigate whether Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen lied to Congress about the Trump administration's family separations.
Sen. Jeff Merkley of Oregon released an internal 2017 document showing that top Department of Homeland Security officials discussed several "policy options," including one that would "separate family units."
Nielsen has denied that the Trump administration had a family-separation policy, saying that the only policy was to prosecute migrants for illegal entries and "uphold the laws that Congress has passed."
In December 2018, Nielsen testified to Congress that "we have never had a policy for family separation."
Read more: https://www.businessinsider.com/merkley-asks-fbi-to-investigate-nielsen-over-family-separation-remarks-2019-1
https://twitter.com/IndivisibleNet/status/1086377414718976000
Time to get loud: Twitter Handle lists for both the House and Senate--and phone #ImpeachTrump
For those who are interested. and pass it onto your social contacts if you so desire.
Time to get loud. We have just uploaded updated Twitter Handle lists for both the House and Senate. We made them in both PDF and Word Doc formats. Don’t forget the hashtag #ImpeachTrump https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/19opDlfJyaCQ7bJPgvllFy6VSHrZ75Xw7?usp=sharing … Please Retweet for all to see.
https://twitter.com/mikefarb1/status/1086240383607164928
https://twitter.com/mikefarb1/status/1086277647611551754
Trump Ally Lindsey Graham Shows Up In Turkey On Friday After Trump Cancels Nancy Pelosi Trip To Vis
Source: inquisitr.com
Less than 24 hours after Donald Trump, citing the government shutdown, canceled a trip to visit troops by Nancy Pelosi, top Trump ally Lindsey Graham turned up in Ankara shaking hands with the Turkish president.
January 18, 2019 Jonathan Vankin
Less than 24 hours after Donald Trump canceled House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's official trip to visit troops in Afghanistan, a trip that Trump himself has yet to make, one of Trump's top allies in the United States Senate -- Judiciary Committee Chair Lindsey Graham of South Carolina -- appeared in Turkey on Friday where he was photographed shaking hands with the country's political strongman President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, according to the Turkish Andalou Agency news service.
Trump's order canceling Pelosi's travel to Afghanistan -- a trip that had not been previously announced due to security concerns -- came the day after Pelosi postponed Trump's annual State of the Union address due to the government shutdown, as CNN reported.
But even as Trump in a letter to Pelosi posted on Twitter by Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders cited the shutdown and the 800,000 federal workers currently not receiving pay as the reason why Pelosi's trip was not "appropriate," Graham was apparently on his way to visit Erdoğan -- who has become a central figure in the Trump-Russia collusion scandal.
Trump's former national security adviser secretly worked for Erdoğan, covertly lobbying to get a top Turkish opposition figure living in the United States sent back to Turkey, as NBC News reported. Flynn has also pleaded guilty to lying about his Russia contacts.
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Read more: https://www.inquisitr.com/5255115/trump-lindsey-graham-in-turkey-nancy-pelosi-visit-troops/amp/?__twitter_impression=true
Trump is deliberately trying to demean and humiliate Pelosi. damn
Erdoğan's office released a photo of the Turkish president greeting Graham on Friday...
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https://www.aa.com.tr/en/turkey/turkish-president-erdogan-receives-us-sen-graham/1368466
https://twitter.com/DearAuntCrabby/status/1086354394394906629
reporter: "the White House has denied the leak" Pelosi: "I rest my case"
It is so obvious--if the WH denies something, we can assure it is the truth.
John Harwood
?Verified account @JohnJHarwood
50m50 minutes ago
reporter: "the White House has denied the leak"
Pelosi: "I rest my case"
https://twitter.com/JohnJHarwood/status/1086305994903351297
https://twitter.com/jessiwhiteside/status/1086310063222882304
@RonJohnsonWI 🇷🇺 On Russian state TV being praised for lifting sanctions on a Russia oligarch
@RonJohnsonWI 🇷🇺 @SenJohnThune On Russian state TV being praised for lifting sanctions on a Russian oligarch. The @GOP works for Russia now.
https://twitter.com/ProudResister/status/1086044620826365952
LIST of @GOP Senators who VOTED DOWN a resolution to KEEP SANCTIONS on businesses run by #TrumpRussi
I will be calling sun spots Ron Johnson later.
#BREAKING:There you have it folks-- HANDY LIST of @GOP Senators who VOTED DOWN a resolution to KEEP SANCTIONS on businesses run by #TrumpRussia MASTERMIND #OlegDeripaska
https://twitter.com/Emolclause/status/1086246193015996417
Oh look, it’s the #TreasonCaucus: 🇷🇺 @senatemajldr 🇷🇺 @LindseyGrahamSC 🇷🇺 @SenatorRomney 🇷🇺 @JohnCornyn 🇷🇺 @SenatorBurr 🇷🇺 @tedcruz 🇷🇺 @RonJohnsonWI 🇷🇺 @SenJohnThune On Russian state TV being praised for lifting sanctions on a Russian oligarch. The @GOP works for Russia now.
https://twitter.com/ProudResister/status/1086044620826365952
Insurer USAA offers $15M in interest-free loans for Coast Guard members during shutdown
Source: AP
By: The Associated Press ? 1 hour ago
SAN ANTONIO — A military personnel insurer and financial services company has donated $15 million for interest-free loans to Coast Guard members during the partial U.S. government shutdown.
San Antonio-based USAA on Wednesday announced the funds will be disbursed by Coast Guard Mutual Assistance. The American Red Cross Hero Care Center will assist.
Coast Guard personnel with dependents are eligible for interest-free loans up to $1,000. Service members without dependents are eligible for up to $750.
Officials say the loans are meant to cover an estimated two weeks of shortfalls due to Coast Guard personnel not being paid during the government shutdown, which began Dec. 22.
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Read more: https://www.navytimes.com/news/your-navy/2019/01/17/insurer-usaa-offers-15m-for-coast-guard-interest-free-loans/
I am so glad some troops are being helped.
Also:
A coalition of Coast Guard-related nonprofit groups has opened a pop-up food pantry at the U.S. Coast Guard Academy to help Coast Guard and academy workers affected by the partial government shutdown.
By: The Associated Press
https://www.armytimes.com/resizer/qMiZ_4hQ69JxxOosc6_zRREujZ0=/1200x0/filters:quality(100)/arc-anglerfish-arc2-prod-mco.s3.amazonaws.com/public/SHA43FVMNZAMDHMTTNKAZN3JNA.jpg
In this Jan. 16, 2019, file photo, U.S. Coast Guardsmen and women, who missed their first paycheck a day earlier during the partial government shutdown, walk off a 45-foot response boat during their shift at Sector Puget Sound base in Seattle. (Elaine Thompson/AP)
Poll: Trump Approval Down, Slips With Base
Source: npr
January 17, 20195:00 AM ET
President Trump's approval rating is slipping, and it's largely because of cracks among his base.
Brendan Smialowski/AFP/Getty Images
While the longest government shutdown in U.S. history continues, President Trump's approval rating is down, and there are cracks showing with his base.
A new NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist poll finds Trump's approval rating down and his disapproval rating up from a month ago. He currently stands at 39 percent approve, 53 percent disapprove — a 7-point net change from December when his rating was 42 percent approve, 49 percent disapprove.
And the movement has come from within key portions of his base. He is:
Down significantly among suburban men, a net-positive approval rating of 51-to-39 percent to a net-negative of 42 percent approve, 48 percent disapprove. That's a net change of down 18 percentage points................................................
Read more: https://www.npr.org/2019/01/17/685539207/poll-trump-approval-down-slips-with-base
A few are waking up--------but it is so slow!
"Down a net of 13 points among white evangelicals, from 73-to-17 percent approve to 66-to-23 percent approve."
https://twitter.com/Amy_Siskind/status/1085908583739547648
OMG--After HurricaneMaria--#Trump .....did not want a single dollar going to Puerto Rico...
My god. In the wake of the devastating Puerto Rico hurricane, "Trump told then-White House Chief of Staff John F. Kelly ... he did not want a single dollar going to Puerto Rico... Instead, he wanted more of the money to go to Texas and Florida"
https://twitter.com/neal_katyal/status/1085761364067532800
https://twitter.com/waltshaub/status/1085895114998849537
"voting on a bill to eliminate ACA subsidies for any health plan that covers reproductive services.
Sen Schatz would not joke about this. I just saw this and will now be calling my Senator.
We live in ugly times!
Brian Schatz
?Verified account @brianschatz
Today, we are not voting on ANY bill to open the government. At 4 pm we are voting on a bill to eliminate ACA subsidies for any health plan that covers reproductive services. Republicans gonna Republican.
https://twitter.com/brianschatz/status/1085942288818294785
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